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So I did what I always do \u2013 I did a ton of reading and talked to people who had BlackBerries and iPhones. And when the new iPhone 3GS came out last month, I bought one. This past trip was my first time to vacation with more than a voice and text only cell phone. How was it? A mixed bag.<\/p>\n

The iPhone worked very well. I connected to the Wi-Fi at the hotel and I had a cell signal in most places. The camera worked OK and gave me a chance to take a bunch of random shots on the chance that some of them might turn out well. A few did, although the lack of a zoom limits its usefulness. The GPS function came in handy when I made a wrong turn on the way back. The ability to get weather information any time was nice, as was keeping up with baseball scores.<\/p>\n

Having e-mail was nice too. I sent my mother a few pictures straight out of the phone, and I was able to keep up with some things going on at church. While I can get into work e-mail via webmail, I can\u2019t connect directly into the corporate server, so it was easy to stay away from work.<\/p>\n

But I never felt like I was completely away. I could keep up with e-mail, news and even with sites like icanhascheezburger.com<\/a>. Now, I didn\u2019t skip doing anything I wanted to do to surf the net, but I stayed in pieces of my daily routine more than usual when I\u2019m on vacation. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s a tradeoff \u2013 you can\u2019t stay connected and truly \u201cget away.\u201d I think it was mostly a good tradeoff, and I\u2019ll definitely be taking the iPhone with me on future trips. But there are costs to staying connected all the time.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"